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Spoiler: Boaster (hover to show)

If a Captured Hero is rescued from your Land of Bondage: Both Players Draw X (Max 2), then shuffle a Character from each territory to the Deck. If this card is rescued: Draw 1.

Spoiler: Worshipper (hover to show)

While a Revelation Demon or Idol is in play: Protect this card from Dominants. If a Plague is played: Shuffle this card into the Deck.

Spoiler: Rejoicer (hover to show)

If your Opponent's Hero is Discarded during Battle: Protect this Lost Soul from rescue this turn.

Spoiler: Torturer (hover to show)

When this card is placed a Site: Protect Humans from Discard and Negate Humans with Discard Abilities until your next turn. Protect this card from rescue by a decreased Hero.

Spoiler: Fearer (hover to show)

If this card is in a Site and Opponent plays Good Dominant: Shuffle a Lost Soul into the Deck.

Spoiler: Unrepentant (hover to show)

If a Lost Soul is resuced or a Evil Character is converted to a Hero (except by an Artifact): Protect this Lost Soul from rescue this turn.

And that's all my new Lost Souls! Thoughts?

The Rejoicer is hacked. You just find a way to discard a hero (from the wording, even one in your own territory) and it is unrescuable. Aryoch, for example.

Very much dislike the Yu-Gi-Oh!-esque grammar you're so fond of using, lol. Redemption only uses colons for place abilities and special ability keywords are not generally capitalized.

That aside, 100% agreement with Noah's comments on the Fearer.

Minion brings up a good point about Rejoicer. There are a decent number of ways to discard any Hero in play during battle that might make it overpowerful. While I'm all in favor of having another counter to AutO-Gid and the like, I'd prefer it was balanced in and of itself as well.

Torturer seems rather powerful, possibly overpowered, not sure. Protecting all humans from discard? Special abilities and game rule discards being nullified for all humans would drastically change the playing field.

I like Worshiper as a niche card for idol/plague-themed decks. It's not overpowerful (protecting from dominants is on other cards without any condition and there aren't a lot of plagues in the game that are useful enough to include in a deck) but is still useful.

For Boaster, I don't like the "both players" wording. I assume you mean you draw and the person that rescues the soul draws, but it's not entirely clear currently. I also think it has too much going on and is, thus, overpowered. The draw AND shuffle are too much for the condition, it's not difficult to get a captured character into your LoB and have it rescued to meet this condition, and while you're going to lose anyway if the opponent is meeting this condition for you frequently, I think it's too much. You could have either the draw OR the shuffle on the rescue and that'd be fine. I'm unconvinced that the draw at the end, when this soul is rescued, is necessary. The Soul from I/J-Tin 26 era (Rejoice, I think?) has nothing else going on and lets everyone draw 1, this card is already busy and only gives you the advantage.

Hi guys! Thanks for replying!

Sorry for how the cards are worded as I haven't been looking at my Redemption stuff much and I've been around YGO much more then Redemption recently.

So I'll go down each soul for my reply:

Boaster - I will have to admit, of all of these LS's this one was the hardest for me to make... As I wanted a card that fits the verse, claiming riches but is really poor... And to be really honest, I don't like this card's current version myself. If anyone has an idea for a better effect I'd be open to hearing it.

Yea, Worshipper is made to be kinda a deck specific soul more or less. @TheHobbit: well it also protects from others then just SoG... Although with all the new Dominants out, it might have been power creeped. But with that said, I am very much thinking of putting a CBN on the Protection of the card.


Rejoicer - maybe would it be balanced more if it was only if your Opponent's Hero is Discarded?

Torturer - I was initially thinking of having the Human that survived get reduced stats everytime they're going to be discarded. But I ditched it as I thought it would be too much for a LS to do. Beyond that it's actually just following it's verse from the scripture, where there is a point where Humans can't die while they are being tortured by the Demons from the Pit. Although I could have a requirement of controlling a Demon or you have to have a number of LS's to resolve this effect.

Fearer: Yea, I can change that.

Also, it doesn't really follow the story all that well. and it just makes it to conditional to me... But I might do it as Opponent's Hero in Battle...

Also, I just added a new LS, Unrepentant. Although I'm not so sure how good he'll be... Other then against Clay I think.

Shouldn't it say if and EC is converted???

Actually yea, my bad. But other then that, thoughts?

This could be OP with EC convert enhancements like evil spirit!

Well it's supposed to be only for when a LS is rescued or a EC is converted to a Hero. Which doesn't happen to often as far as I've seen... (But then again the last time I was playing was before TEC...)

Mort clay enhancements convert, because that's what the early church did! This would be awesome with clay, but I belive that clay is already way OP compared to brigades like red and silver

So basically this is a strong counter to a Clay deck... But most others it wouldn't really affect to much at the moment other then just letting a Genesis player convert your EC's just so that you can keep them from getting it if it's the only one out. (And if the game is still going as fast as I was seeing it do, this will probably end up negated or not the only one out for long)

Agreed, most other good brigades don't have a whole lot of convert enhancement that people actually use. However I see clay widely used in competitive play this year... and beyond

I would take out "if this card is rescued draw 1" in boaster, he has too many SA's

So its basically a punishment card for speed decks...

I would do this better by "discard the top X card(s) of opponents deck.  X= # of draw abilities used by opponent this turn."